Director, Zurich Research Lab. Present

Responsible for setting and executing agenda for the laboratory and for IBM research in Europe. As director of the Industry Solutions Laboratory (ISL) act as technical liaison for key customer accounts in Europe.

IBM CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS, Armonk, NY 10504

Executive Assistant to the Vice-Chairman of the Board 2001 - 2002

Assisted the Vice-Chairman in all his duties. This included preparation of briefings, presentations, strategy papers. Worked on a multitude of special projects. Participated in developing the framework and in the execution of the strategy for emerging business opportunities.

IBM VOICE SYSTEMS, West Palm Beach, FL 33401

Director, Consumer Voice Systems 1999 - 2001

Head of IBM’s consumer speech effort. P&L accountability for unit. Worldwide responsibility for marketing, sales, development and operations of the ViaVoice line of speech products. ViaVoice was the worldwide market share leader in dictation software and the unit was responsible for generating over 60% of IBM’s brand awareness in the speech category. Introduced the first continuous speech recognition product for the Macintosh platform. Increased profitability by realigning sales teams, reducing cost and focusing on growth areas. Grew revenue by opening up new channels and diversifying the product portfolio. The unit went from a loss in 1999 to a profit contribution of 30% of revenue in 2000. Achieved year to year revenue growth of 18% in a declining category.

IBM T.J. WATSON RESEARCH CENTER, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

Senior Manager, Consumer Devices 1997 - January 1999

Responsible for the IBM Research activity in pen computing. In charge of directing IBM’s research efforts in pen computing and ensuring that they impact products. The group had one of the best records of any research group in impacting end user solutions, delivering consumer products such as ThinkWrite and CrossPad. Led a team that conceived, developed and brought to market a first of a kind pen-on-paper electronic input device, the CrossPad. Developed the business plan and go to market strategy. Negotiated third party licensing agreements for manufacture and sale of the product. The TransNote, the latest mobile offering from the IBM ThinkPad group was a direct result of this work

Senior Manager, Pen Input Systems 1994 - 1997

Head of business development as well as research for the pen computing area at IBM. Identified new market opportunities and built strategic alliances. Involved in the design, development, testing, qualification and marketing of software. Developed improved multi-modal interfaces using pen and speech as input. Managed departments responsible for basic research as well as product development.

Researcher, Manager, Handwriting Algorithms 1992 - 1994

Helped establish the use of speech techniques in handwriting recognition. Led the development of a state of the art on-line handwriting recognition engine. Developed novel techniques and algorithms for the handwriting recognition problem. Was the principal software developer as well as technical lead on the team that developed, prototyped and tested all aspects of this engine.

JET PROPULSION LABORATORY, NASA, Pasadena, CA 91011

Member of Technical Staff 1983 - 1987

Systems Engineer on the Shuttle Imaging Radar - B (SIR-B). Subsequently, system engineer for the Venus Radar Mapper mission, a synthetic aperture radar (SAR), designed to map the surface of the planet at high resolution. In addition, conducted research on image processing issues related to SAR imagery such as speckle noise reduction and feature classification.

EDUCATION

BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, RI. 1987-1990

Ph.D. in Engineering (Electrical Sciences) in the Laboratory for Engineering Man/Machine Systems, Division of Engineering, 1990. Major in the area of Systems and Signal Processing, Minors in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Analysis. Emphasis on applied mathematics. Research in the field of speech processing. Thesis on the time-varying modeling and parameter estimation of speech signals as applied to the discrimination of stop consonants.

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA. 1981-1983

S.M. degree in Electrical Engineering in June 1983. Thesis on the application of a two-dimensional spatial filter to the retrieval of atmospheric temperature profiles.

TECHNICAL INTERESTS

Consumer Systems and Software

Pattern recognition and classification

Speech and handwriting recognition

Signal processing, one-dimensional and multidimensional

PATENTS & AWARDS

Holder of 15 patents

IBM Sixth Plateau Invention Achievement Award

NASA Certificate of Recognition 1988.

Member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi.